The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 96: March 22, 1934 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 96: March 22, 1934 The Scriptures tell us that without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. The faith of all intelligent beings is centered in God, and inasmuch as there is so much required of the individual in the way of sacrifice and service, the keeping of the commandments, the obedience to law, in order to obtain the goal of our existence - our aim being eternal life - we should have a perfect and correct conception of God, we should understand Him, His personality, His powers and attributes, and the relationship we sustain to Him. The world of mankind to-day is in great spiritual darkness with respect to this one important principle so necessary for men to believe in and understand, in order to obtain salvation. There has never been', I am sure, a greater need for anything among the children of man than the need, at the opening of this Gospel dispensation, of the revelation of the Father and the Son given to the boy Joseph Smith. To him they revealed themselves to be personages having bodies of ¿esh and bones and spirit, beauti ful beings, immortal, glorified and exalted, in whose image man has been created and made. It was a revelation to the world, and a revelation to him because he was raised up of the Lord to' accomplish a mighty work, and it was necessary that his faith be correctly grounded, that he should have a correct understand ing of God the Eternal Father and His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost as well. This knowledge of the Holy Ghost was later reviewed to him that his faith might never waver, whatever trials might come into his life. We know from his history that he was tried, from the time of his receiving the first manifestation and revelation of the Father and the Son, until the day of his death. He needed that knowledge to buoy him up he never faltered. The children of men need that knowledge, the foundation of which is faith, . And their acceptance of and obedience unto it are necessary unto man's salvation. Unless men believe in these things they can not be saved in the kingdom of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.